Spellbound

Spellbound is a silly story, a kind of Harry Potter (without the school or the schoolboy) for adults who haven’t probably grown up. Griselda Entwhistle is a grotesque 88 year old who, in a flash of inspiration, decides it might just be a good thing to be Prime Minister of the UK and consequently become a very important person. So, with the mysterious help of a strange character who sports horns and a barbed tail, she sets about her self-imposed task. She’s helped along her way by dodgy politics and a system crying out for magical intervention. There are references to satan, allusions to odd sexual behaviour, travel by broomstick and a whole lot of other nonsense that sensible grown-up people probably wouldn’t approve of. However, I found it amusing to write and having just edited it, have chuckled again. I really would like to bump into my Griselda Entwhistle, though not, maybe, on a dark moonless night.